Saturday 10 September 2022 10:19 PM Liz Truss sparks debate after firmly grasping Charles's arm in their first ever ... trends now
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It was doubtless intended as a touching gesture to ease the new King’s grief. But it has sparked a debate on whether the Prime Minister had inadvertently breached Royal protocol.
On Friday, in her first audience with King Charles, Liz Truss was seen to hold the Monarch’s left arm tightly as they spoke.
The close encounter at Buckingham Palace appeared to come as Ms Truss expressed her ‘very, very sincere condolences’ and the King confided that his mother’s death had been ‘the moment I’ve been dreading’.
On Friday, in her first audience with King Charles, Liz Truss was seen to hold the Monarch’s arm and shake his hand
It also came after a prolonged handshake between the King and the PM, who had curtsied to the new Sovereign as she was formally announced.
But whatever her good intentions in holding the King’s arm, Royal biographer and historian Hugo Vickers said last night that, strictly speaking, the new PM had
